The Blue Is Where God Lives
By: Sharon Sochil Washington
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sharon Sochil Washington’s The Blue Is Where God Lives is a mesmerizing, powerful work of Afro-magi…
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1. Passage
By: Connie Willis
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
A tunnel, a light, a door. And beyond it ... the unimaginable. Dr. Joanna Lander is a psychologist … read more
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2. Crossings
By: Alex Landragin
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut--a novel in three parts, designed t… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
"As long as I have a glimpse of sky, I can tolerate almost any hardship."-Alex Landragin, Crossings
"Here was a man who seemed to take amusement in the messiness of life--as close to a definition of happiness as I know."-Alex Landragin, Crossings
3. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
4. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- adult fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
5. Family Meal
By: Bryan Washington
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
6. Hold You Down
By: Tracy Brown
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Hold You Down is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties t… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
7. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- fiction
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
8. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
9. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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10. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
11. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
12. Whale Fall
By: Elizabeth O'Connor
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
13. A Good Happy Girl
By: Marissa Higgins
3.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more
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- fiction
14. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
By: Shannon Chakraborty
4.27
Format: 483 pages, Hardcover
Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
15. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
16. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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17. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- fiction
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
18. The Great Reclamation
By: Rachel Heng
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood l… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
"You know. You cannot just–" Ah Boon stopped. *Walk in here and ask me to open myself up all over again*, he thought, but he did not say (Heng 253)."-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"He wished for the noise of the pile driver, the clattering of the conveyor belt. He wished for something to prove that life had changed. But it was as if nothing had changed, nothing would ever chang…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"But as the old body of his father's boat thudded over the dull brown waves, the smell of fish pursuing him always, he saw the city, gleaming and spotless, rising as if dormant from the sea. Sparkling…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"Now a silent rule had been broken. The possibility of a real conversation loomed—the unspoken envy and resentment that had simmered all these years, the fact that yes, every morning since she had fal…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
19. The God of Endings
By: Jacqueline Holland
3.80
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark secret: She is immortal. In 1834, Collette’s grandfather gr… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
20. Linghun
By: Ai Jiang
3.96
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."-Ai Jiang, Linghun
"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"-Ai Jiang, Linghun
21. The Last True Poets of the Sea
By: Julia Drake
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Larkin family isn't just lucky—they persevere. At least that's what Violet and her younger brot… read more
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- fiction
"I had never had friends before, not like this."-Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea
"In the fog, she kissed me once, very quickly, and it felt like courage."-Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea
"I imagined her springing from her father’s head, fully formed, like Athena."-Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea
"Why did adventures have to happen away from home? Couldn’t the puzzle be an adventure, too?"-Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea
22. In Universes
By: Emet North
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
23. Yours for the Taking
By: Gabrielle Korn
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each… read more
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- fiction
24. Pig: Poems
By: Sam Sax
4.32
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more
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25. Moonrise Over New Jessup
By: Jamila Minnicks
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and encha… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
26. Hard Girls (Jane and Lila Pool, #1)
By: J. Robert Lennon
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Two estranged twin sisters as they hunt down their elusive mother in this razor-sharp crime novel f… read more
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- fiction
27. Like Happiness
By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
28. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
By: Tomi Adeyemi
3.49
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zélie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Do not pray to be saved; pray to be reborn."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
"I like hearing your people call out to your gods- they never seem to come."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
"I teach you to be warriors in the garden, so that you may never be gardeners in a war."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
29. Tropicália
By: Harold Rogers
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the heady days before a New Year’s Eve party on the bustling sands of Brazil’s Copacabana Beach,… read more
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- fiction
30. Sky Full of Elephants
By: Cebo Campbell
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
31. The Blue Is Where God Lives
By: Sharon Sochil Washington
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sharon Sochil Washington’s The Blue Is Where God Lives is a mesmerizing, powerful work of Afro-magi… read more
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- urban fantasy
- adult fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
